Haiku by Ezifeh Chinua

Haiku for Evolving

Mother's vocal chord:
Metallic pillars
Right under my words

And growing up:
A long wake of winter skin
Beyond a cross-road

Hesitating:
You in a den of hungry lions
The door is ajar



Ezifeh Chinua is a poet and artist who lives in Nigeria.  He is currently experimenting with forms.

Haiku by Denny Marshall

seeking perfection
forgetting a broken clock
is right twice a day


camping on moon
under the dome, the best part
zero mosquitoes

Denny Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published.  Some recently.  Mostly does artwork.  Denny does not have any books or books for sale.  See more at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by Faris Naimi

Mute Congregation

Trees pray with arms raised.
Lonely petrified sermons.
Mute congregation.

Faris Naimi is an undergraduate student at George Mason University.  He was born and raised in Vienna, VA, and he works as a dental assistant.  He spends his time as a student of Biology, a writer, and a nature enthusiast.

Haiku by Sana Tamreen Mohammed

Tall trees often brood
over direful loss of kin
White pages protest


Fallen brown leaves crunch
beneath puny paws of fur
Two squirrels home bound

Hues of orangish
blue dance in late afternoon sky
Spring's Elysium

Haiku omitted
Five seven five syllables
mutely disappear

Where no graves exist
A still garden lies extinct
Birds hover no more

Sana Tamreen Mohammed, M.A. B.Ed, resides in Kolkata, India.  She worked as a journalist in a renowned news channel and independent documentary making.  She won The First Monsoon Haiku Competition, Kolkata.  Presently, she woks as a teacher when not working on her manuscript.  She was featured in a radio show.  Her poems were published in various online literary magazines and translated into four different languages.

Haiku by A.J. Huffman

Diana's eye blinks
as she hunts alone
in night's unruffled expanse.



Moon rises
against midnight surf.  Skyline erupts
in mirrored brilliance.



An astronaut's dreams:
to float in airless orbit,
walk on powdered form.



Cycle complete.  Full moon
calls my inner nature.
I howl at the wind.

A.J. Huffman has published twelve full-length poetry collections, thirteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses.  Her most recent releases, Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers.  She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2500 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com.

Haiku by Iain Macdonald

hot soup
in a red bowl,
rain on the window



prized First Edition,
but the bored puppy
doesn't care



scalding shower;
the scent of your skin
rising from mine



three days of rain
and the frogpond
is reborn



alien sighting--
keeper at work
among the hives

Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Iain Macdonald currently lives in Arcata, California.  He has earned his bread and beer in various ways, from flower picker to factory hand, merchant marine officer to high school teacher.  His first two chapbooks, Plotting the Course and Transit Report, were published by March Street Press, and a third, The Wrecker's Yard, was published in 2015 by Kattywompus Press.

Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

Shine

Look to that cued-up lemon rind
. . . We're all experts
At something



The Scarlet Tattoo

I am content in this day & age
Since owls now patrol
The avenue



Russet Monastery

I cam calling & gladly
Your door-knocker
Was in disarray . . .

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with Dead Snakes, The Fib Review, Poetry Pacific, The Mind[less] Muse and others.  Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia.  Stefanie's latest poetry title "the Vanishing" 2015 is published by Walleah Press and available from the publisher [Walleah Press], Amazon and Fishpond.